Hi,
Does any one has any technical reason why this change is wrong, or makes
smth
worse? If this change makes smth better, even a bit, and does not ruin
smth, why it does
not have a chance for existence?
IMHO.
rik
Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
>>>> 1) PRNG is not crypto.
>>>>> Stop spewing nonsense.
>>>> Do you have enough education to determene what is nonsense and what is
> not here? For example I have master degree in mathematics.
>>>> PRNG and crypto are inseparable.
>>>> Well separable areas. Various PRNGs can be used in or choosed by crypto.
> But no crypto in PRNG itself.
>>>> In addition,
>> as you very well know, this PRNG is actually the keystream generator for
>> the RC4 stream cipher.
>>>> Yes, I know. And what? Crypto uses math intensively, not PRNGs only,
> hashes etc.
>> To confirm my words, OpenBSD uses ar4random() almost everywhere in the
> tree, especially after realizing "modulo bias" bug, and use it as "plain"
> PRNG even in simplest non-crypto areas.
>>